According to the 1875 census, the Sherman family is listed as Mullato. [1]

According to the 1880 census, the Sherman family is listed as Black. [2]

Last Monday we had the honor of an introduction to the Mayor of Cleveland, Ned Sherman. In personal appearance Mr. Sherman is five feet eight inches in his gum shoes, about the color of Egyptian night, beard slightly tinged with gray, a portion of his countenance very open and the balance looks as though somebody had mistaken it for a bank vault and tried to open it with a jimmy - probably the effect of small-pox. He is as affable as an end man in his conversation, as unlettered as a turnpike guide board, and as unassuming as a bill poster. He meets with the village board - on the sidewalk - and conducts the affairs of the corporation - whenever he gets an opportunity - with the experience of a man bred in parliament. Ned, although not strictly prepossessing, will not be a bad looking person when carved ebony comes in fashion again. [9]

When [Ned] reached the age of twenty-one he moved to Herkimer, where he obtained a job driving mules on an Erie Canal packet boat. Ned used to recall the many times he drove mules along the canal towpath from Buffalo to Albany. [8]

Cleveland's village's colored president is said to be desirous to represent that town in the next board of supervisors. Keep him 'dark' for heaven's sake! We want more light on our county affairs now. -- Central Square News [17]

According to the 1870 census, the Sherman real estate was valued at $350 and the personal estate was valued at $100.

According to the 1875 census, the Sherman residence was valued at $500. [1, 15]

Sherman lived in an old building that once stood on Division Street, about two blocks from Griesmyer's home. [19]

Mrs. Gilbert Roberts returned on Saturday [May 4, 1907] to her home in Rome after caring for her father, Edward Sherman for several weeks. Mr. Sherman is able to be out once more and is in a fair way to celebrate his one hundredth birthday, June 9, 1907. [20]

Cleveland Village Cemetery, North Street, Cleveland, Oswego, New York [21]

Historians believe Ned Sherman lies in an unmarked grave in the village cemetery. He's not in Cleveland's small private cemetery at the edge of town where two black Civil War veterans - Edward Wilson of the Massachusetts Colored Volunteers and Henry Feeler, a private in the Connecticut volunteers - were buried.

Lawrence Cottet stated that he had a very large funeral procession and was greatly respected in the community. [10, 21]